We are Sturm, Ruger & Company® Certified to work on your Ruger Mini 14® & 30® Rifle's. You will no longer need to send your rifle to Ruger for restricted factory work. We can handle any factory replacement part work you are needing from firing pins to trigger components and more..... *All factory warranty issues will still need to be handled through Ruger® for now. Please keep in mind that we have been at the cutting edge of technology when it come's to the Mini 14® and Mini 30® rifle for many years.

Accuracy Systems Inc. Your Path to the Most Accurate Mini 14

Ruger Mini 14 And Mini 30 Barrel Package Prices Introduction

Hello and welcome to our Ruger Mini conversion page. This page is long but filled with a lot of information about our accuracy conversions. Back when we started, we made it our goal to achieve the most accurate Mini conversions on the planet, bar none. We will be up front with you. We are not cheap! If you want a cheap conversion remember you get what you pay for. Do you want a Smith that does a few Mini’s a year with a prefabricated barrel, then installs the barrel and hopes it delivers the accuracy? Or do you want a company that makes the Mini their business and guarantees accuracy?! Cheap is not always better when it comes to accuracy. We know what the Mini’s weaknesses are through trial and error; you can't cut corners when it comes to accuracy! The Mini is well built and is worth every penny you spend with us to upgrade the rifle to match grade accuracy. We will review some comparisons between the popular AR 15 system and the Mini 14® system below.

The Mini 14® rifle system is a close copy of the Grand's receiver, bolt, and trigger group system. I don't have to tell you that it ends there, but they are still very similar. The Mini is a very tough, well-built system as it is. It will take all the abuse you can dish out and still be depended on to function when you need it. Here is a quote from General George Patton:"The M1 is the best battle weapon ever developed." The outcome of WW II proves this rifle to be battle worthy. That is also why even to this very day our troops in Iraq & Afghanistan prefer the dependability of the M14 which is the M1's predecessor over the AR 15! But you say to yourself, why put $600 plus into a rifle I only paid $500 for. Well below are some good reasons. Not to mention, have you priced a new M14 lately? Yes, it does shoot a 308 Winchester compared to a 223 Remington. But it also weighs more, cost more and doesn't come with an accuracy guarantee unless you pay extra. Don't feel stuck with the 223 caliber either, we do offer other calibers to suit your needs.

MINI 14 & AR15 Comparisons

Mini 14 - No hot gases are dumped into the bolt. So the bolt is not overcome by excessive heat! Also there is no carbon to build up and lock up the bolt!

AR15 - Hot gases are dumped into the bolt to say the least and carbon will build up if not regularly cleaned causing a malfunction and or cease to operate condition.

Mini 14 - All steel receiver and case hardened to a thickness of at least .020"

AR15 - 75% aluminum alloy with the critical parts steel

Mini 14 - Open bolt design is a close copy of the M14. The open bolt is very forgiving when it comes to dirt, dust or sand. The rifle clean or dirty just keeps ticking and ticking.

AR 15- Closed bolt design. Just ask our troops about the plastic baggies they need to use to keep the sand from jamming up there rifles.

Mini 14 - Self-cleaning gas system no buffer tube to collect moisture or dirt and lock up the buffer system.

Mini 14 - Now here the AR has an advantage over the Mini. Out of the box ACCURACY!

AR 15 - Out of the box ACCURACY!

Mini 14 - But here we can help! We can turn your Mini 14 into a rifle that will shoot right next to an AR15 after one of our conversions is completed. Now that we have discussed the pros and cons of the rifles you would have to say the Mini definitely has some advantages and we can take care of the disadvantages!

5.56MM NATO *Mini 14 Only *We offer 223 Wylde Chambering for the Mini 14. Which means you can shoot both 5.56MM NATO or 223 Remington in the same chamber with no damage to the rifle.

223 Remington *Mini 14 Only *We offer 223 Wylde Chambering for the Mini 14. Which means you can shoot both 5.56MM NATO or 223 Remington in the same chamber with no damage to the rifle.

6MM x 45MM *Mini 14 Only

6MM PPC *Mini 30 Only

25 Boomer *Mini 30 Only

6.8 Remington SPC *We offer Spec I & II chamber's. *Mini 30 Only

6.5 Grendel *Mini 30 Only

7.62 x 39MM *Mini 30 Only

300 Black Out *Mini 14 Only 300 Black Out *Mini 14 Only*

25-45 Sharps Mini 14 Only **** See Below Picture

If you do not see a caliber or chambering ask us if it is available.

Introduced by the Sharps Rifle Company, the 25-45 Sharps was designed by increasing the case mouth
of a .223 Remington (5.56x45mm NATO) to accept .257" or 25 caliber projectiles: .25-45mm Sharps.
This is another Mini 14/AR 15 ready cartridge, like the 300 Blackout, you can use the same ammunition clips
of the Mini 14 223 for the 25-45 Sharps.The Ballistics, which are about the same as a 250 Savage.

Far Right above picture for size comparison:

(L.) .25-45 Sharps (M.) 223/5.6 NATO (R.) 300 Blackout

Illustration of 3 Point Steel bedding of Action to stock

A - Inferior Epoxy Bedding - Sloppy and prone to cracking, will breakdown over time and still relies on only trigger guard to hold action in the stock.

B - Our Three Point Steel Pillar Bedding

B - Clean looking!

B - We use three stainless steel pillars epoxied into the stock. *Illustration above & Below.

B - Then we use three steel screws to bolt the receiver to the stock.

B - Now you can take your receiver out as many times as you like not effecting the bedding and it always remains strong.

Below - Red arrows 1, 2, and 3 show how the receiver is meticulously machined.

Price $125.00

Inferior Barrel Comparison

There are other companies out there that actually call this their heavy barrel..

Stay clear you are just asking to be let down.

This barrel pictured above is one that has been sent to us for a barrel conversion with our true heavy barrel. This customer's out his $350.00.

You pay for what you get. Do you really want to chance purchasing the barrel above.

Notice that where the gas block goes the barrel is very thin .562". This is a harmonic weak spot prone to barrel vibration! We do not do this.

Below is one of our Medium .750" Barrels to compare the barrel above to.

Our chamber is 910" thick for 3.5" then tapering for 1" down to .750" and out to muzzle.

The 6.8mm Remington SPC
By Chuck Hawks

The inadequacies of the 5.56mm NATO as a service rifle cartridge are well documented and have inspired many suggestions regarding possible replacements (some on this web site). Apparently someone in the U.S. Special Operations Command also realized the need for a more potent round and initiated work on a new cartridge designed to work in the M16 action.

The new .270 caliber (6.8mm) cartridge is the result of at least a two year cooperative effort between Special Operations, the Army Marksmanship Unit, and Remington. Various calibers from .22 to .30 were tested before settling on a standard .277" diameter bullet, the same bullet diameter made famous in the .270 Winchester

Remington is offering four 6.8mm SPC factory loads, all with 115 grain bullets. These include two target loads, a Core-Lokt Ultra hunting load, and a Metal Case military-type load. No varmint load is included. The four factory loads all have a muzzle velocity (MV) of 2800 fps and a muzzle energy (ME) of 2002 ft. lbs. from a 24" test barrel. At 100 yards the metal case bullet (BC .325) has a remaining velocity of 2523 fps and energy of 1625 ft. lbs. At 200 yards the velocity is 2262 fps and the energy 1307 ft. lbs. And at 300 yards the velocity is 2017 fps and the remaining energy 1039 ft. lbs. These figures are taken from Remington's 2004 catalog.

The trajectory of the metal case bullet looks like this: +1.2" at 50 yards, +2.7" at 100 yards, + 2.8" at 150 yards, +1.4" at 200 yards, -3" at 267 yards, and -6.6" at 300 yards. The maximum point blank range (+/- 3") is thus 267 yards. These figures are computed for a rifle with a telescopic sight mounted 1.5" over the bore. This, just like the Army claimed, is similar to the trajectory of the .308 with a 150 grain bullet.

The lighter weight .277" varmint and hunting bullets will presumably be the most popular choices in the 6.8mm SPC, and the latter are not thick on the ground. Suggested examples include the 90 grain Speer HP varmint bullet, 100 grain Barnes X-Bullet, 115 grain Sierra HPBT, 115 grain Remington Core-Lokt Ultra, and 120 grain Barnes X-Bullet.

Fast to medium burning rifle powders such as RL-7, IMR 4198, IMR 3031, IMR 4895, H4198, H322, H335, and Benchmark are indicated in the 6.8mm SPC. The MAP of the 6.8mm SPC appears to be about 55,000 PSI.